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The Acquisition of Visual Records Relating to Native Life in North America
Archival Records Relating to Native People in the Government Archives Division of the National Archives of Canada: A Thematic Guide
Archival Records Relating to Native People in the Public Archives of Canada and National Library of Canada and the National Museum of Man: A Thematic Guide
Archives and Native Claims
Archives of Sorrow: An Exploration of Australia's Stolen Generations and Their Journey into the Past
Canada. Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources
Caughnawaga (Kahnawá:ke): Settler Accounts to 1900
Primarily newspaper articles.
Challenges of Treaty Interpretation No. 2
The Children Remembered: Residential Schools Archive Project
The Commission of 1885 to the North-West Territories
Conducting Research on Residential Schools: A Guide to the Records of the Indian and Inuit Affairs Program and Related Resources at Library and Archives Canada
Confederation Debates, 1865-1949: Intermediate/Senior Mini Unit: Manitoba Provincial Edition
After reading background information, brief biographies and primary materials, students engage in a debate between the pro- and anti-Confederation factions. Activities align with Manitoba curriculum guides for Grade 6 Social Studies and Grade 11 History of Canada.
Confederation Debates, 1865-1949: Intermediate/Senior Mini Unit: Saskatchewan Provincial Edition
After reading background information, brief biographies and primary materials, students engage in a debate between the pro- and anti-Confederation factions. This edition is aligned with the Saskatchewan provincial curriculum for History 30: Canadian Studies, Native Studies 10, and Native Studies 30.
Cool Things in the Collection: Sessional Journal of the Legislative Assemby of Assiniboia, 1870
Copy of General Instructions to Newly Appointed Indian Agents in British Columbia
Dances With 'Religion': A Critical History of the Strategic Uses of the Category of Religion by the Government of Canada and First Nations, 1885 to 1951
Epitome of Parliamentary Documents in Connection with North-West Rebellion, 1885
Includes some discussion of Riel's trial and sentencing.
The Evolution of the Department of Indian Affairs' Central Registry Record-Keeping Systems: 1872-1984
The Execution of Louis Riel: Speech of the Hon. John S. D. Thompson, Minister of Justice
Speech made in the House of Commons.
File Classification System: Administrative (Housekeeping) and Operational Records Indian and Inuit Affairs Program [1872-c1980)]
General Instructions to Indian Agents in Canada
Guide to Indian Affairs Field Office Organization in Ontario
Designed to assist researchers and archivists by cross-referencing field offices to names of bands and the duration of their responsibility.
Halfbreeds: Primary Source Material
Index to RG10 and RG15 Microfilm in the University of Saskatchewan Libraries
Indexes of Western First Nations Bands: Languages, Agencies, Inspectorates, and Regional Offices
Instruments as Evidence: An Archive of the Architecture of Assimilation
The James Bay Treaty Turns 100: Grade 12: Canada: History, Identity, and Culture
Making Erasure Manifest: The Importance of Archives and Reenactiment in the Case of Canada's Indian Residential School Survivors
McColl and the Indians
Multiple Voices: Looking at the History of Batoche through the Eyes of Multiple Perspectives
National Aboriginal Document Database
Natives and Settlers Now and Then: Historical Issues and Current Perspectives on Treaties and Land Claims in Canada
Our Betrayed Wards: A Story of "Chicanery, Infidelity and the Prostitution of Trust"
Originally published in 1921. This version transcribed, curated and with additions. The author was the Indian Agent for the "Blood and Peigan" Indians from 1898 to 1911.
Permission: A Blood Reserve Sourcebook Drawn from Settler Records
"R" Is for Métis: Contradictions in Scrip and Census in the Construction of a Colonial Métis Identity
Rebellion, 1885 - Order book of the North-West Field Force.
Remember The Children: Residential School Resource Centre
[Reserve Pass Lesson Plan: Social Studies 8]
Uses archival material as a starting point to teach about the influence of the treaty relationship on Canadian identity and how historical events have shaped contemporary Canadian identity.
Sir John A. Macdonald
The Spectre in the Archive: Truth, Reconciliation, and Indigenous Archival Memory
Strange Visitors: Documents in Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada from 1876
“This Spurious Philanthropy”: Indian Policy, Food and Canada’s North-West As Discussed in the Senate of Canada in 1886
"The evidence provided to this commission provides an interesting record of thoughts by the government and (mostly non-Indigenous, male) experts about food, Indigenous people and the Canadian North-West ten years after the near-extinction of the buffalo."
"To Christianize and Civilize": Settler Motives and Residential Schools
Compilation of primary sources which represent the settler's perspectives on the schools.
Treaty 9 Diaries: The Real Agreement between First Nations and the Crown in 1905: Materials and Documents
Website contains links to legal discussion paper on oral promises, digitized copies of the diaries of the three treaty commissioners (Daniel George Martin, Samuel Stewart, Duncan Campbell Scott), the official report, article Last of the Indian Treaties by Campbell Scott published in Scribner's Magazine, and series of articles by the Treaty Secretary entitled Twelve Hundred Miles by Canoe published in the Canada magazine.